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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Finders Keepers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many letters did Ed get from the woman named Kent?
(a) Two.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) About a dozen.
(d) About 75.

2. What is Geoffrey's marital status?
(a) Married.
(b) Single.
(c) Divorced.
(d) Widowed.

3. What did Ed originally intend to do with the letters?
(a) Give them to Geoffrey.
(b) Keep them for his collection.
(c) Donate them to the Flaubert museum.
(d) Sell them.

4. As a student, what subject did Flaubert fail at?
(a) Economics.
(b) Law.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Medicine.

5. What does Geoffrey do on his last day in Rouen?
(a) He eats at a snack bar called Le Flaubert.
(b) He photographs the statues.
(c) He outlines his new book.
(d) He drives to Croisset.

Short Answer Questions

1. The third list in the chronology consists of what?

2. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?

3. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

4. Flaubert was born in what year?

5. Where does Geoffrey first meet Ed Winterton?

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